I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

FYI: It's been a gorgeous day in San Diego, so please let the astronauts chill outside once they reach North Island.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Didn't hear or feel a sonic boom in coastal San Diego. Anyone? #artemis #sandiego

Science is good. We should fund it.

Was waiting for those chutes. Thank goodness.

God, that's a fast drop.

Meanwhile on the water www.flickr.com/photos/nasah... #Artemis 🔭🧪

Reentry blackout underway, will last 6 minutes

Impressed with the courage of astronauts, because I am terrified just watching the livestream.

We were in fact wondering this!!!

Artemis II carried out RTC3, the final course correction, at 1853 UTC. An 8 second, 1.3m/s delta-V burn. On course for entry at 2353 UTC and splashdown in the Pacific at 0007 UTC

ESA has not received enough love for their role in the #Artemis mission.

This week’s image is of NGC 1270! Gemini North’s GMOS captured this elliptical galaxy set against the breathtaking backdrop of thousands of other galaxies. Check out the 🧵 for more papers! #Astronomy 📸 credit in thread

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Budget requests typically itemize major changes, but the FY27 request totally omits the names of cancelled missions (& doesn't compare to current budget or previous requests, another standard). It requires careful reading/knowledge to identify what's missing, such as 10 astrophysics missions! 🔭🧪

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

The Madrileño Deep Space Network antennas are currently talking to both Voyager 1, 25.4 billion km away, and Artemis II, 286,000 km away. Just thought you might like to know.

If you’re looking for #ArtemisII wallpaper images for your phone/computer/intense and lasting joy, NASA has you covered. www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m...

Look, I see how bad the answers are that students are getting when they use AI, so I am extremely terrified by our (forced) capitulation to it.

The South Pole ceremonial marker, pic by winterover Michel. Still bright enough to see a little bit of Sun on the horizon in the reflection off the marker, but the moon is the brightest thing in the sky right now. #Antarctica @NSF @doescience

My latest story is up! The components required for DNA and RNA are all present on asteroid Ryugu, which lends strong support to the hypothesis that the raw ingredients for life were present before the Sun even formed. A very fun and fascinating tale!

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Some stars/planets identified

Here it is.👍🙂

Latest #Artemis image to drop is my newest favourite! "A New View of the Moon" ICONIC! 🔭🧪 📷: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

And here is the eclipse photo from #ArtemisII as well! Link: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... 🔭

Ok, I found the link! "Earthset" from #ArtemisII Original: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... 🔭

Oooh this is a deep cut! (Ted specializes in those)

The Artemis II crew just reported several impact flashes—explosions from hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids with the Moon—during the solar eclipse. We make a big effort to see a handful of these from Earth with telescopes. That astronauts flying by the Moon saw >4 in tens of minutes is AWESOME.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Wait… impact flashes!?!?! #Artemis

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

#Artemis II crew reach farthest distance from Earth NASA estimated that the crew members flew 252,756 miles (406,771kilometres) from Earth. It is more than 4,100 miles (6598 kilometres) farther than the Apollo 13 astronauts reached during their emergency return. 🚀🌓

I was on local news a few times in the past week to answer questions about #Artemis, and I specifically used "aspirational" instead of "inspirational" with regards to human spaceflight. It requires the best of us to be successful.

There we are! The crescent Earth! #Artemis

So, the hose that the crew was just told to put under the window came about because of a miss in development. At some point in development, we lost track of the requirement to manage condensation on the windows. When we realized this, it was too late to make big changes to the design.

Exactly this.

I was less than two years old during Apollo 17, so this is my first experience of this sort of crewed space mission. I've taken for granted that we'd been there, but the last time was literally a lifetime ago for me. It's about damned time we returned.

When the Orion spacecraft passes the far side of the moon today, the Artemis II crew will be 252,760 mi (406,778 km) from Earth. They will be only a quarter of the distance to Lagrange Point 2, where #NASAWebb observes the universe: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/orbit/ 🔭 🌕

Looks like about 1M people are watching the various live NASA feeds right now. #Artemis

Charon and the Moon look similar for similar reasons! Ancient surfaces (pockmarked and gray) that show geologic evidence for a semi-global volcanism event that happened after the heaviest part of impact history, and filled lowland areas with smooth plains -- liquid rock for the Moon, water on Charon

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

How many times will we weep today, friends? #Artemis

LOL at the jar of Nutella flying through the capsule right now.

While everyone is marveling at the lunar flyby, the Trump admin is hoping we don’t notice their plans to cut everything that NASA does except space commercialism and militarization bsky.app/profile/chan...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.